After the two were silent for a moment, Walker asked, "What are you going to do?"

Luke said, "Since their purpose is to prevent us from treasure hunting, we can't let them succeed. The next step is to focus on treasure hunting."

“What about Maurice Dhawan?”

Luke thought for a while and said, "Let's not expose him first. Let's just pretend that nothing happened and say it was an oil thief."

Walker said, "Even if we didn't tell him, he would probably guess that we already suspected him."

"So what? As long as we don't fall out, he will definitely not fall out. It's not a bad thing to make him uneasy. The more he has this mentality, the easier it is for him to show his flaws.

And even if his accomplices find the treasure first, as long as he can't escape, we still have a chance."

Walker couldn't think of a better way for a while, "Just do as you say.

Who do you think Maurice Dhawan’s accomplice is?

The black guy whose gas was stolen, or the black woman you met on the motorcycle, and by the way, Carlos, the canyon ranger.”

Luke said, "I don't think the black guy is very suspicious. As for the canyon ranger Carlos and the woman riding the motorcycle, I haven't had an in-depth conversation, so it's hard to judge."

Walker waved his hand, "Forget it, just take it one step at a time. There may be other people hunting for treasure in such a big canyon. His accomplices may not have really shown up in secret.

Luke warned, "Be careful if you are alone with Maurice Dhawan."

Walker nodded, "I know that I have judged as many bad people as you, and I will not be lenient when encountering real problems.

Let's go back so that he doesn't get suspicious."

The two returned to the camp along the road, and Luke raised the gasoline barrel in his hand, "Hey, Maurice Dhawan, look what this is?"

"Wow, you found gasoline. That's amazing. Where did you find it?" Maurice Dhawan looked surprised, but it was a little fake in Luke's eyes.

Luke pretended to be proud and said, "As I said just now, we didn't hear any movement last night, which means that the oil thief did not drive a vehicle, and this barrel of gasoline is not light. He cannot carry it very far."

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Sure enough, I guessed it right, he hid the oil drum nearby."

In fact, Luke was just making excuses for himself to find the oil barrel. For a strong man like him, walking with this barrel of gasoline was nothing at all.

Maurice Dhawan looked puzzled, "Why would he do this?"

When the whereabouts of the other party's accomplices were unknown, Luke didn't want to quarrel with him. Naturally, he would not expose him at this time. Instead, he would continue to make excuses for him, "I guess this is probably a business."

Maurice Dhawan still frowned, "What does that mean? How can oil stealing become a business?"

"Remember the black guy I talked about? His car's gas tank was also stolen. He used the radio to call the canyon ranger for help. The canyon ranger promised to send him five gallons of gasoline, but he would charge a fee of five hundred dollars.

And something similar happened again today, do you think it's just a coincidence?" Luke showed an expression like "you know."

Maurice Dhawan said with the same enemy, "What a bastard, don't let me find evidence that he stole oil, otherwise I will not let him go."

My money is not that easy to cheat."

"Believe me, we will meet that bastard sooner or later, no one can do bad things without punishment.

What we have to do now is to find the treasure first." Luke walked to the three-wheeled motorcycle, added gasoline from the oil barrel, and muttered, "No one can stop us from finding the treasure. No one can stop us from finding the treasure.

people!"

Maurice Dhawan nodded and agreed, "You are right, the treasure belongs to us."

Afterwards, the three of them packed up their equipment and hit the road, with Luke still riding the three-wheel motorcycle and Walker driving the RV.

After driving for a while, the RV could not continue moving because of the narrow road. Walker parked the RV on the side of the road and sat on the back of the motorcycle.

This time during the treasure hunt, the three of them were much quieter and no longer discussed the treasure hunt plan as passionately as before. Even if Luke and Walker did not reveal it too obviously, the atmosphere also changed unconsciously.

After about half an hour, the three-wheeled motorcycle finally reached the bottom of the canyon.

This time Luke and Maurice Dhawan were paired up, and the two of them searched on three-wheeled motorcycles.

Walker acted alone, searching along the east side of the canyon.

Luke and Maurice Dhawan searched along the west side of the canyon.

This arrangement is also to prevent Maurice Dhawan from playing dirty tricks.

However, according to Luke's speculation, before finding the treasure, Maurice Dhawan did not have enough motives and reasons to commit the crime.

And even if he wants to take action, Luke is not afraid of him.

Originally, Luke quite enjoyed the process of exploring and hunting for treasure, but now that there is an extra kid in the team, it makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

Luke was riding a three-wheeled motorcycle, and Maurice Dhawan was sitting in the motorcycle, looking at the map in his hands from time to time.

The motorcycle drove forward for a while, and Maurice Dhawan said, "Stop."

Luke stopped his motorcycle and asked, "What's going on?"

Maurice Dhawan pointed to the ground ahead, "There are tire marks."

Luke got out of the car to check, and sure enough he saw tire marks. Luke's observation skills are much better than ordinary people. Maurice Davan was able to find tire marks before him, which shows that he, an outdoor adventure expert, still has some skills.

"It's a car tire. The mark is relatively new. It should have been left not long ago."

Maurice Dhawan said, "It looks like we have another competitor."

"Don't worry, the treasure must be ours." Luke got on the motorcycle and drove forward again.

However, he didn't drive fast, and his eyes glanced around to observe the terrain from time to time.

After driving forward for a few minutes, Maurice Dhawan stopped again, "There are new tire tracks ahead."

Luke got out of the car again to check the spot. This time the tire tracks were narrower and looked like they should be motorcycle tire tracks.

Luke observed carefully for a while and felt that he had seen this tire mark, which was very similar to the mark left by the motorcycle driven by the black woman yesterday.

"It's the tire tracks of a motorcycle, and the marks are relatively new." Luke shrugged, "Why are there so many treasure hunters all of a sudden? Is the treasure really around here?"

Of course, it is more likely that this young man brought him here.

Maurice Dhawan could not see the joy or anger, and responded, "This means that we are in the right place, let's work harder."

Since the tire tracks were new, it meant that the person might not have left yet. Luke became more vigilant and looked around but found no suspicious figure.

Luke got on the motorcycle and drove the three-wheeled motorcycle forward again.

This time, Luke had been paying attention to Maurice Dhawan's expression and found that his expression was a little solemn.

In addition to observing the surrounding terrain, Lis Dhawan also observes the ground from time to time.

The two of them were quiet for the rest of the journey, and Luke chose to remain silent to test Maurice Dhawan's attitude towards the tire marks.

After about ten minutes, Maurice Dhawan suddenly said, "Stop, the tire marks of cars and motorcycles have disappeared."

In fact, Luke also observed this, but he didn't say it immediately because he wanted to see Maurice Dhawan's reaction.

Luke asked deliberately, "What do we do now?"

Maurice Dhawan replied, "The tire tracks of the two vehicles disappeared at the same time, and there was no trace of returning to the original road, indicating that they probably turned.

I suggest we turn around and go back to have a look."

Luke and Maurice Dhawan had the same judgment, and they were confident in their own strength, so they turned around and went back to search.

The motorcycle drove not far and returned to a triangular fork. Luke got off the car to check and felt that both vehicles had probably left through the fork.

Luke continued to drive his motorcycle and once again found the previous motorcycle and car prints.

After driving for a while, Luke suddenly stopped the three-wheeled motorcycle.

Maurice Dhawan focused his attention on the ground, raised his head and asked, "Why did it stop suddenly?"

Luke pointed to a slope not far away, "There is a spruce tree over there. I'll go over and take a look."

Luke got off the car and climbed up the slope. The slope was a bit steep and there were not many places where he could borrow strength. Although he did not have much climbing experience, he was in good physical condition. He climbed up the slope to a platform on the left front of the platform.

A spruce tree is planted.

Because spruce trees were also marked on the map, Luke paid attention and looked around the spruce trees. He found two different sets of footprints on the ground extending deeper into the platform. Going further forward was a semicircular cave.

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Luke took out his pistol and followed the footprints on the ground into the cave.

There is a huge crack inside the cave, and light shines in from there. It is not particularly dark. There are many and complex footprints in the cave, and there are traces of digging. However, each hole is not dug deep enough.

Forty centimeters.

Judging from Luke's experience, someone should have tried to dig for the treasure here, but judging from the depth, they should not have found it. The pit where the treasure was buried cannot be only forty centimeters deep.

You know, the box containing the treasure that Luke found last time was about 40 centimeters high, plus the buried soil.

Therefore, Luke speculated that the two men did not dig up the treasure.

Luke frowned slightly, sniffed hard, and faintly smelled the smell of blood.

As an old detective, Luke is relatively sensitive to the smell of blood. He scanned the surrounding ground and saw a mark covered with soil. When he pulled out the soil, there was fresh blood underneath, and there were only two human shoes around.

There were no animal paw prints.

Obviously, these two people should have had a conflict.

Luke knelt down and carefully identified the two shoe prints. The two sets of shoe prints were one large and one small. The larger ones were probably men's leather boots, while the smaller ones looked like women's shoes.

Luke guessed based on the motorcycle tire tracks outside that this woman was probably the black woman riding the motorcycle.

As for who this man was, he couldn't tell yet. After some hesitation, he used an identification card again.

If he couldn't find the treasure, he would suffer a huge loss this time.
To be continued...